Crime Statistics for Broad Town, Broad Hinton, Wiltshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Broad Town in October 2024. There were no crime incidents in in this areas this month.

Crime Category	Incidents
All Crime	0

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Broad Town. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Broad Town

We've taken the ten nearest places to Broad Town and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Broad Town has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Toothill (4.17 miles)	97
Coped Hall (3.93 miles)	64
Freshbrook (3.93 miles)	61
Hook (4.52 miles)	46
Hook Street (4.39 miles)	34
North Wroughton (3.97 miles)	23
Tockenham (3.92 miles)	7
Bushton (1.86 miles)	1
The Barton (1.75 miles)	1
Broad Town	0

Where are the most violent places near Broad Town?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Broad Town and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Toothill	38
Freshbrook	31
Coped Hall	17
Hook	12
North Wroughton	11
Hook Street	9
Tockenham	1
Bushton	1
The Barton	1
Broad Town	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Broad Town?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Broad Town to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Broad Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Broad Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Broad Town is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Central	85
2	Eastcott	82
3	Mannington and Western	60
4	Old Town	59
5	Lydiard and Freshbrook	49
6	West Selkley	43
7	Shaw	42
8	Royal Wootton Bassett South	30
9	Wroughton and Wichelstowe	29
10	Royal Wootton Bassett North	24
11	Lyneham	5

Which road in Broad Town has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Broad Town with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.